I support PODC simplification, but I would suggest an even greater coefficient. Small contributors would not be hurt, but running a cpu farm will become very costly. If big boys insist on keeping their places in the leaderboard, so be it - we would have more BBP staked for PODC earnings.
Also podc I think we could simplify by no team requirement and just require ^1.3. all bounce user needs to do is register their cpk. Wcg.rac just needs cpid and rac. Open it up. That will encourage more Bbp staking.
I guess I had a slight memory lapse and just realized, during our last poll, we did open up PODC 2.0 to everyone.
Let me reaffirm the parameters with everyone here that are currently live in prod:
- All teams are currently Welcome and can join PODC
- We Require you to have > 256 RAC if you are not on BiblePays team (on BBP, you can have any rac > 1)
- We require a 1.3 exponent for BBP RAC
- We require a 1.6 exponent for non-biblepay rac
Just to double check things, I searched a few CPIDs and let me provide some examples:
This researcher 923b49353af748c0c4006d4051bbf04d is not on Gridcoin or BiblePay, and requires 183,180 coin-age for his 1946 RAC (^1.6)
This researcher, 92257a71c0d0379cf559b9928010cfa6, is in Gridcoin, and requires 3,896,605 coin-age for 13,157 rac (^1.6).
This researcher, 40c30af534b3f08356d776677af8b28a, is in BBP, and requires 5881 coin-age for 793 rac (1.3).
I confirm we have configuration 0 in prod (this is smartcontract-server line 76).
So it appears we are pretty welcoming already to everyone.
I wonder if there is anything else we need to do?
On a side note, I recently lowered the minimum RAC to 90 in test (for non-biblepay teams), and I will be testing that and if it succeeds we can make that change (which simply means non-bbp researchers will be paid if they have more than 90 rac and enough stake).
And just to confirm my commitment with PODC:
I think PODC is still a gem that helps set us apart from the crowd, in that we offer humanitarian computing-- and we help cure cancer.
During the next sanctuary vote (for subsidy changes), I only intend to vote on releasing the charity component of our monthly governance superblock to the coinbase (this would give the sanctuaries a higher reward)- because they will be paying the charity going forward (after September mandatory upgrade). I do not intend to vote to lower the PODC GSC budget percentage.